- Risky is a half-Rakshasa. They are aggressive. She's too. Not to the point of being man-eating, but these impulses still need an outlet.
- Risky is 39 years old. Rakshasa are long-lived. Learning this fact in-universe is playing with He Knew Too Much.
- Shantae is 20 years old, but between her immaturely carefree lifestyle, her attention span, her Uncle's forgetfulness and her racial bonus to longevity... Good luck finding that fact in-universe. She thinks she is still 16 (or even 15 if stars are right and ice-cream tasty) and acts the part. This becomes exacerbated if she stops dancing at the night club for extended periods of time.
- Tinker Brain was powered by a steam engine (hence why volcano). No hamster can.
- Mimic's assumption about Risky's plan was totally wrong.
- Risky's plan was to shunt the dynamo's counterflow of light magic into the Genie realm, ride it there, then plunder the place of as much ambient magic as she could using the lamp.
- Tinker Brain was made 100% Shantae-proof, immune to whipping, fire and lighting. It *should* have worked!
- The plan was to have Shantae stuck ether as Nega-Shantae, razing Scuttle town, or as her heroic self, lashing ineffectually at the invincible Tinker Brain. Really, this plan had layers of redundancies.
- The plan's failure was in not accounting for Shantae's whip using human magic (Ki). No one could've predicted the coils over-charging because no one knows much about Ki.
- Risky's plans for the plundered magic included creating super tinkerbats and building an artificial moon to become Queen of the Seven Skies. And then she'd wage a glorious war against Ammo Baron's air fleet, Don Carnage style.
- Shantae breaking the Tinker Brain threw a mother of all monkey wrenches into the plan. Especially the Mimic's tinkertech flow-reverser. Because of that, the entire machine fell through into the Genie realm.
- Risky was so baffled (How?!! I had you contained!!!) that Shantae seized the lamp from her, applied reverser to the lamp and released all the magic stored within, thinking it was dark. But there was a boatload of *light* magic. It turned dark and coagulated into a herd of pseudo-Genies whom Shantae destroyed with little effort. But she took so much stress damage (she thought they were corrupted real Genies!) that she became Afflicted with self-recriminations.
- The reverser was playing havoc on the surrounding energies, so someone of the real Genies (incorporeal during this era) booted both women out of the realm.
- Risky was so livid at this point (her entire dream of becoming an air pirate annihilated!) that instead of her usual banter she felt like devouring Shantae's still beating heart. That's why the words "I hope you die in fire" when she sensed the lair started collapsing.
- The magma reacted violently to the steam engine and water tanks being buried in it. See that YouTube video of magma reacting to a measly bag of trash with a huge eruption!
- Risky soared away on her hat, still nnashing her teeth.
- The afflicted Shantae was too distracted and fell off the rickety bridge during the escape sequence. The last thing she saw was a funeral shroud of red-hot rock fragments flung above her, descending rapidly.
- Her last thought was "I wish I didn't have to die here".
- The dimensional barriers were still weak and some Genie (maybe even her mother) sensed that and granted her wish.
- She woke up in Nerima, the lamp still in hand, to a battle cry of "Sweeto!", the traumatic memories suppressed.